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To: thoughtomator
It apparently was borne out of NAFTA. I was a subscriber to NewsMax.com mag for a while, and this article was in the November 15, 2001 issue vol 3 number 12.

EPA Website: No U.S. Border

Quoting from the article:

Sometime before the 2000 election I received an email about groups in Southern California calling for an end to the U.S.-Mexican border and the creation of a 'border zone"- an area 50 miles on either side of the U.S.-Mexican border that would become independent of either country.

I dismissed this as, well, wacky.

I don't anymore.

This past summer the respected magazine The Economist devoted several pages to this concept, suggesting that the idea of a 'third country' between Mexico and the United States has merit.

The magazine reported that 'thinking of the border as a separate country makes some kind of sense" because a "third nation" straddling the U.S.-Mexican border already has developed between Dan Diego/Tijuana on the west to Brownsville, Texas on the east.

Of course, the border is an imaginary political line. bust some would expand this line into a 'zone' or 'region' or 'area' that would become a separate country.

[snip]

The Economist says the genesis for the border zone 'country' germinated from NAFTA. As the U.S. and Mexican economies integrate, the need for a fixed border evaporates -- so the thinking goes. [snipped to end]

15 posted on 05/12/2005 6:46:36 PM PDT by JesseJane (Close the Borders.)
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To: JesseJane
"The Economist says the genesis for the border zone 'country' germinated from NAFTA. As the U.S. and Mexican economies integrate, the need for a fixed border evaporates -- so the thinking goes."

We've been set up by One Worlders like George H. Bush and Junior, and the rest of the Rockefeller RINO elitists who see the world NOT as sovereign countries, but as Trade Zones.

D@mn them. They are traitors to the Founders and to the Republic.

19 posted on 05/12/2005 6:58:04 PM PDT by dreammaker
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To: JesseJane
I have been trying to find this article. Can you recall the month or the title?
52 posted on 05/14/2005 9:47:01 AM PDT by KittyKares
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